Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical SciencesA Class of Extremal Positive Maps in $3 \times 3$ Matrix AlgebrasHiroyuki OsakaPublished Oct 31, 1992• 37 citationsPublisherAbstractWe shall provide a large class of extremal positive maps in M_3(\mathbf C) which are neither 2-positive nor 2-copositive and study the algebraic structure of the set of all positive linear maps in M_3(\mathbf C) .DOI10.2977/prims/1195167934